‘Do they care nothingâ€¦ about the sensibilities of ordinary listeners and licence-fee-payers?’added the editorial.

And in an op-ed piece, Sir Gerald Kaufman condemned the BBC for allowing transmission of the ‘deeply unpleasant’item.

Meanwhile, a certain newspaper decided that it was not so unpleasant that it couldn’t be played in full, by means of a YouTube video of the offending phone calls to Andrew Sachs, plus a full, uncensored transcript.